Healthy Sweet Potato Vada Pau

by varsha_bachulal

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Traditional vada pav dish prepared with sweet potato full of nutrition and health. A twist to the classic batata vada.

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Healthy Sweet Potato Vada Pau recipe - How to make Healthy Sweet Potato Vada Pau

South Indian South Indian Vada

Preparation Time: 20 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes Total Time: 35 mins 3
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Ingredients

1 large sized sweet potato (shakarkand)
1 cup besan (Bengal gram flour) to make batter
1 cup chopped spinach (palak) or fenugreek (methi) leaves
salt to taste
turmeric powder (haldi) to taste
chilli powder to taste
cumin seeds (jeera) to your taste
oil for frying
3 ladi pavs
2 tbsp lemon juice
cheese slices (optional)

Method

Peel the skin off the sweet potato and boil it in pressure cooker/microwave till soft.
Mash the potato mixture (after draining the excess water )and add 1/2 cup chopped spinach/methi leaves and ingredients in
Make sure all are mix together well.
Prepare medium consistency besan batter using water and salt.
Add another 1/2 cup spinach/methi leaves to this batter.
Make big balls of the sweet potato mixture and dip it in prepared batter to deep fry it.
Once fried,let the vada cool down.[it can be eaten by itself with chutney/tomato ketchup]
Get fresh pau and butter it both sides to be toasted on tava.
Optionally add slice cheese to hot pau so it gets melted.
Add the prepared vada in between your pau with your favourite chutney/ketchup.